Mozart Effect: Failure to Replicate

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The Mystery of the Mozart Effect: Failure to Replicate
 
    Psychological Science, July 1999, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 366-369(4)
 
    Steele K.M. [1]; Bass K.E. [1]; Crook M.D. [1]
 
    [1] Appalachian State University
 
    Abstract:
 
    The Mozart effect is the purported increase in spatial-reasoning 
performance immediately after exposure to a
    Mozart piano sonata. Several laboratories have been unable to confirm 
the existence of the effect despite
    two positive reports from the original laboratory. The authors of the 
original studies have provided a list of key
    procedural components to produce the effect. This experiment attempted 
to produce a Mozart effect by
    following those procedural instructions and replicating the procedure 
of one of the original positive reports.
    The experiment failed to produce either a statistically significant 
Mozart effect or an effect size suggesting
    practical significance. This general lack of effect is consistent with 
previous work by other investigators. We
    conclude that there is little evidence to support basing intellectual 
intervention programs on the existence of
    the Mozart effect.
 
    Language: English  Document Type: Research article  ISSN: 0956-7976
 
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Inc., Boston, USA and Oxford, UK
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